The Styrian bee protection act

There is a new beekeeping act in Styria, which is currently under review.

A single federal state? A new beekeeping act? The entire § 23, which regulates the protection of bees from pesticides as well as the minimum distances to the respective apiaries, has been deleted.

Letter from the president of the Austrian Professional Beekeepers’ Association

Below we draw attention to a letter from the president of the Österreichischer Erwerbsimkerbund (Austrian Professional Beekeepers’ Association) – a letter to the Office of the Styrian Provincial Government.

Since it only concerns Styria, the temptation is great to “tune it out” if you live in another federal state. Could it be the intention of the legislators to achieve exactly that? It would be another application of the “divide and rule” principle. The probability that, over time, the legal situation described will also be applied in the other federal states is very high…